David Zaslavsky

About a year ago, I posted a list of arXiv joke papers as an answer on Academia Stack Exchange.
At the time, I was just going for a de facto “proof” that it’s okay to upload joke papers — after all, there have been so many of them, and some have been so famous, that if the arXiv moderators thought this was a problem they surely would have done something about it.
(Which they haven’t.)
But after the answer kind of exploded in popularity, I realized that (as far as I know) nobody else has bothered to list all these papers.
So I’ve been keeping it updated each year.

Starting this year, I’m going to mirror the list here on my site.
If you know of anything I should add, let me know!

Time to kick off a new year of blog posts! For my first post of 2015, I’m continuing a series I’ve had on hold since nearly the same time last year, about the research I work on for my job. This is based on a paper my group …

Ubiquitous wireless internet. Not so surprising, really, because Americans do have a rather unhealthy obsession with their wireless, but one would think I’d get wifi in the hotel room. Surprise, nope! Naturally this makes it rather less convenient to put up blog …